David A. Sinck wrote:

>Ok, so there were my kids paying around with knoppix when they ran
>across 'kstars'.  
>
Also look at kmoon.  It sits in your tray and tells the moon phase.  "Oh 
no, I've only got half the modules finished and we've waxed a whole 
quarter!"  This little toy prompted me to look up the last eclipses we 
had.  Did you know we just had an annular solar eclipse visible from the 
northern ice cap Friday May 30?

One really neat thing you can pull off with kstars is center and track 
the sun, set the time increment to 1 day, then let it run.  You'll get a 
great perspective of the Earth zooming through its orbit, and the motion 
of the planets relative to us.  Also, try zooming in very close on a 
individual near-earth body, it has a texture map for each one.  Makes 
you feel like a Hubble. 

--Alexander